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Marketers Beware: Google's Mobile-Friendly Search Will Bury Your Mobile-Unfriendly Sites

Don't Let This Good Crisis Go To Waste — Use It To Drive Your Mobile Mind Shift

Jennifer Wise
Deanna Laufer
 and  seven contributors
Apr 21, 2015

Summary

On April 21, 2015, Google will change its search results for smartphones. When Google's new ranking algorithm deems a site to be mobile-friendly, the site will show up higher in search results. With the majority of consumers and business customers now using smartphones and tablets, search has tipped from being desktop-first to mobile-first. This will be a crisis for brands and companies with web pages Google deems mobile-unfriendly, but it's a crisis you can harness to convince your firm to become mobile-first. This report gives B2C marketing professionals the concrete advice they need to respond to Google's mobile-friendly search.

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